Indonesia landslip victims sought

Blocked roads are preventing heavy machinery being deployed

Rescuers are still looking for dozens of people missing after landslides on the Indonesian island of Flores that killed at least 40 people.

Bad weather continues to hamper the rescue efforts with blocked roads preventing the supply of the heavy machinery needed to move debris.

Dozens of homes were washed away in East Nusa Tenggara province.

Indonesia is in the middle of its rainy season, which each year sparks dozens of landslides.

Correspondents say the problem has been exacerbated in recent years by deforestation, which removes the vegetation that binds the soil.

Emergency supplies

Flores police official Lt Col Ginting Santoso said 40 bodies had been recovered and at least 29 others were believed to be buried.

Local disaster management official, Yos Nono, said torrential rain had struck six hilly districts in the province.

The government is distributing emergency food supplies to those made homeless on Flores, which is about 1,500km (930 miles) east of Jakarta.

Sicilia Dagomes, a health worker in the main town of the affected region, Ruteng, said: "As soon as the rain stops and the waters recede, we are going to badly need medicine."

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